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Date: 31 December 2005 |
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2006 === To read this newsletter online www.informationclearinghouse.info/ or snipurl.com/ayzc RSS FEED www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=001864 === Number Of Iraqi civilians Slaughtered In America’s War 100,000 + Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2178 The War in Iraq Costs === A Call For Help And Justice Massacre of Tel Afar. We lay before the international public opinion and international human rights organisations the truth of what is happening in Tel Afar of the extreme use of force and the use of internationally forbidden weapons of poison gases, cluster, microwave and napalm bombs, we demand autopsies be carried out on the corpses of our sons who fell in the barbaric aggression by international medical bodies to verify the inhuman practices carried out by the American forces of occupation and to expose the stooge militias that participated in the massacre of Tel Afar. === U.S. Soldier Among 20 Killed: Police also said they found the bodies of six men who had been blindfolded, shot and dumped at a sewage plant in southeast Baghdad. A mortar round killed a policeman in Baghdad, and gunmen fatally shot the owner of a supermarket in the capital, officials said. === 844 American service members killed in Iraq in 2005: The number of Americans wounded in Iraq, 9,157, exceeded the number wounded in 2004, when the total was 7,956. === Bush and Blair Plot Their Exit Strategy, as the Nation Falls Apart at the Seams: This was the year in which the US admitted it was not going to defeat the insurgency. It was the ebb tide of American and British power in Iraq === Australia: Voters abandon PM over Iraq war: VOTER support for John Howard’s decision to go to war in Iraq is in freefall, with even Coalition supporters who backed the 2003 invasion now questioning the value of the protracted conflict. === Terrorists in High Places: Wars are not waged by those who have to fight them. Those who fight wars know too well their terrible costs. Wars are waged by those who profit from them with minimal or no risk to themselves. War is big business and it is immensely profitable for a select few who are insulated from the effects of war‚s environmental impacts and social costs. === Some soldiers trying to get out of Army: Increasing numbers of men and women in uniform are seeking honorable discharges as conscientious objectors. Others are suing the military, claiming their obligation has been wrongfully extended. Many have simply deserted, refusing to appear for duty. === Sign Tallying Military Deaths Upsets Army : Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops in Iraq would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation’s tense debate about the war in Iraq. === Report: U.S. preparing NATO for possible strike on Iran : German media sources have recently reported that the Bush Administration is preparing its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for a potential attack on nuclear sites in Iran. === .Is Washington Planning a Military Strike?: Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran’s suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program. === Iran is NPT compliant: German official : A member of the German parliament‚s foreign policy committee, Ruprecht Polenz, has said that Iran presently complies with the NPT regulations, U.S. media reported Thursday. === With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation : Israeli policy is the root cause of need in the occupied territories, but donors pay up without challenging it === Military fears big Afghan losses: BRITISH troops set to deploy to southern Afghanistan this spring could sustain losses on a scale not seen since the Falklands war, military intelligence officers have warned. === Ex-Envoy: British Used Intel After Torture: A former British ambassador has published government documents he says prove that Britain knowingly received intelligence extracted under torture from prisoners in Uzbekistan. === Padilla Lawyers Urge Supreme Court to Block Transfer : The lawyers acknowledged that Mr. Padilla would prefer to be in civilian custody eventually. But they said it appeared that the only reason for the government’s rush to move him was to bolster the administration’s efforts to discourage the Supreme Court from reviewing the crucial underlying issue of whether President Bush had the authority to detain Mr. Padilla === The Bush Family Coup: The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution === Go To The Light: The irony of Bush, the NSA and Gonzales whipping up a criminal investigation into who dared tell the public that they were breaking the law will be lost on far too many Americans. === 5 Minute Video: The Battle For America: We have history on our side === Cuba, Bolivia Make Literacy, Health Plans : Fidel Castro and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, announced a 30-month plan to erase illiteracy in Bolivia, the latest move by left-leaning South American leaders calling for increased cooperation among nations in the region without U.S. influence. === Bitterness returns to D.C.-Havana relations: U.S. diplomat gives caustic speech; Castro responds in kind === Ex-army officer seeks presidency in Peru: Analysts say Humala seems to have some of the same appeal as President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and President-elect Evo Morales in neighboring Bolivia, both political outsiders who won wide support among the poor and working classes for pledging to protect the country from intrusive foreign interests. === Deliver Us from Kony: Why the children of Uganda are killing one another in the name of the Lord. === Abramoff ready to rat on members of Congress: The plea agreement would secure the Republican lobbyist’s testimony against several members of Congress who received favors from him or his clients. === In case you missed it: Bush removal ended Guam investigation: A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after. === In case you missed it: Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush team: In President Bush’s first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show. === Nonprofit group linked to DeLay was funded mostly by clients of lobbyist : The U.S. Family Network, a public-advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group. === 2 Taxes on Wealthy Expiring: : Move to Cost Treasury $27 Billion === Two-Tiers Plan Continues to Strangle American Manufacturing Workers : With the rash of corporate bankruptcies, labor disputes and the unprecedented increases in corporate management salaries, bonuses and fringes, profitable corporations are using the same unfair, disrespectful and discriminatory practices to increase their ever growing profits at the expense of the working class. === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here === |
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